Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.MoreJean Cocteau quotes [07/13/2011 02:07:37]

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.MoreJean Cocteau quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.MoreJean Cocteau quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.MoreJean Cocteau quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]